Genesis 21:17

World English Bible (2000)

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

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  • Gen 16:11 : 11 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
  • Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Exod 14:13 : 13 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.
  • Exod 22:23 : 23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
  • Exod 22:27 : 27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
  • Judg 18:23 : 23 They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, "What ails you, that you come with such a company?"
  • 1 Sam 11:5 : 5 Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, "What ails the people that they weep?" They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
  • 2 Kgs 13:4 : 4 Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.
  • 2 Kgs 13:23 : 23 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
  • Ps 50:15 : 15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
  • Ps 65:2 : 2 You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
  • Ps 107:4-6 : 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 6 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,
  • Isa 22:1 : 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
  • Isa 41:10 : 10 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
  • Isa 41:13-14 : 13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, 'Don't be afraid. I will help you.' 14 Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 43:1-2 : 1 But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
  • Matt 15:32 : 32 Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."
  • Mark 5:36 : 36 But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe."
  • Gen 46:3 : 3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
  • Gen 15:1 : 1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
  • Gen 16:9 : 9 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 21:18-20
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    18Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

    19God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

    20God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

  • Gen 21:9-16
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    9Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

    10Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

    11The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

    12God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

    13I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

    14Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

    15The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

    16She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

  • Gen 16:7-11
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    7The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

    8He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

    9The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."

    10The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

    11The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

  • Gen 22:11-12
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    11The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."

    12He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

  • Gen 17:18-20
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    18Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

    19God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

    20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

  • Gen 16:13-15
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    13She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are a God who sees," for she said, "Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?"

    14Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

    15Hagar bore a son for Abram. Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

  • Gen 22:15
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    15The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,

  • Gen 22:7
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    7Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"

  • Gen 25:12
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    12Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

  • Gen 24:7
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    7Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

  • Gen 16:1-2
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    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

  • Gen 31:11
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    11The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'